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Celebrating Academic Excellence at the Eli Lilly Awards 2024

1 May 2024
Eli Lilly Awards Recipients,(L) to (R), Ms Emily Russell, recipient of the Eli Lilly Award for Academic Excellence in MSc Biotechnology, Mr. Kyle Meiklejohn, recipient of the Eli Lilly Award for Academic Excellence in Third year Biochemistry, and Ms. Iris Carvalho, recipient of the Eli Lilly Award for Academic Excellence in Second year Biochemistry. Pictured with members of the UCC Biochemistry & Biotechnology Society.

The Eli Lilly Awards for Academic Excellence in Biochemistry and Biotechnology were held on Tuesday, 16th April.

Congratulations to the recipients:

  • Ms. Iris Carvalho, Eli Lilly Award for Academic Excellence for her outstanding performance in second year Biochemistry
  • Mr. Kyle Meiklejohn, Eli Lilly Award for Academic Excellence for his outstanding performance in third year Biochemistry
  • Ms. Emily Russell, (BSc Hons Biochemistry) Eli Lilly Postgraduate Award for Academic Excellence for her outstanding performance in MSc Biotechnology 

The ceremony was compered by Professor Tommie McCarthy, Director of the MSc in Biotechnology programme and the recipients were presented with their awards by Elaine O’Brien, Upstream Senior Scientist-TS/MS, Eli Lilly and Dr Deirdre Buckley Sr. Director of Biotech TS/MS at Eli Lilly.

The staff in the School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology would like to thank Eli Lilly for sponsoring these academic awards and for their continued support.

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